Monthly Archives: December 2016

At the Four Seasons hotel in South Korea, AlphaGO stunned grandmaster Lee Sodol at the complex and highly intuitive game of Go. Google’s artificially intelligent system defeated the 18-time world champion in a string of games earlier this year. Backed by the company’s superior machine-learning techniques, AlphaGo had processed thousands and thousands of Go moves from previous human-to-human games to ...

Who says you need to flip a switch to operate it? Certainly not Yoswit, a new smart-home product helping you control your lights with nothing more than a Bluetooth connection. Because in the 21st century, you shouldn’t need to get up to adjust your lighting, right? The differentiating factor of the Yoswit is its ability to support a switch without ...

Our lives are lived in data. Data crossing borders and connected in virtual space. Most often, it appears, we live in open and too easily accessible data networks. States and corporations are watching us through data, and we are watching each other through data. What does individual privacy mean in this data saturated environment? Privacy is like trust and security; ...

Live Sport and TV, one of the best live stream player in the Windows App Store. The app supports different live stream formats such as RTMP, RMTPE, RTSL, HLS, etc. With almost one thousand live streams, Live Sport and TV covers a variety of topics including news, business, entertainment, sport. In the latest update, beside expanding the app’s availability to ...

ICT R&D Fund, after successfully inaugurating National Incubation Center in Islamabad, is now planning to set up similar facilities in all provincial capitals. According to an RFP (request for proposals) published in newspapers and on their official website, such Incubation Centers are planned for Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar Quetta. ICT R&D Fund has invited companies which can setup and maintain incubation centers ...

OneDrive includes a new activity center that aligns with the design of Windows 10. If you don’t like it, here’s how to turn it off. And if you aren’t seeing it, here’s how to turn it on! Microsoft released an update for its OneDrive app (version 17.3.6720.1207), and among the fixes and improvements, the sync client also received a new ...

The gulf between “human” and “machine” is closing. Machine learning has enabled virtual reality to feel more “real” than ever before, and AI’s replication of processes that were once confined to the human brain is ever-improving. Both are bringing technology into ever-closer proximity with the human body. Things are getting weird. And they are going to get a lot weirder. Let’s ...

Thanks to the recent encryption debate many smartphone owners are keenly aware of personal data stored on their iPhone, from contacts to calendar entries to photo metadata and more. Newly leaked documents relating to Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite demonstrate how much of that information is available to law enforcement agencies, at least when a device is left unencrypted. Source: ...

A study recently conducted at the University of Copenhagen suggest that “lurking” on social media for long periods of time can make you envious, and thus make you more miserable. “Too much Facebook browsing at Christmas, and seeing all those ‘perfect’ families and holiday photos is more likely to make you miserable than festive.” The study was conducted with more ...

A German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shared a report, citing internal documents, which reveals how Facebook takes care of hate speech and fake news. The report was published in the papers last week, when the German politicians threatened to create laws against social networks for refusing to permanently delete hate speech or fake news from their platforms. The internal documents in ...